das passagen- werk/the arcades project

das passagen- werk/the arcades project 

walter benjamin created with the arcades project a body of work which has been seeing as an brilliant artistic endeavor of his. the assembly of historical text containing comments, anecdotes, magazine articles and other literary miscellaneous brings the reader to a world of socio-political, literary curiosities of the parisian society of the 20's. and somehow its analyses still, in many cases, very contemporary.

das passagen- werk/the arcades project 

walter benjamin

date          - monday - 30.09.2013

time          - 7.45 pm - 
                   reading starts at 8.15 pm sharp

place        - blank slate magazine space -       
                   kaiserpassage - store 44

address    - kaiserstraße 62-64 
                   60329 - frankfurt am main  

Le Pont des planites (Interplanetary Bridge). Engraving by Grandville, 1844        

                                                                                                                                

like strolling through an arcade, the audience will be engaged in a mental distraction which involves historical facts and fictional narrative through reading benjamin's das passagen- werk/the arcades project we are presenting a view of the twenties that created the whole thing. 

the audience is invited to join the textual performance, building a literary sculpture and enjoy musical abstractions of the selected chapters. 

the performative reading will be in german, french, and english.

protagonist

the kaiserarcade

passages read by 

saul judd - susanne radmann - felix pausch - laila nissen - johanna suess

ruediger lang on the plattenspieler

important

the space is limited - please RSVP° before 29.09.13 sending us an email reply to this invitation. as subject write : yes i am a flaneur.  after receiving your email we will sending you a confirmation email which will give you a code to get into the kaiser passe even if it is closed. the kaiserpassage's gates closes around 8pm. 

a donation of 3€ will be suggested!

°RSVP° is a request for a response from the invited person or people. it is an initialism derived from the French phrase répondez s'il vous plaît, meaning "please respond." ^[1] [2]

that means [1] Anyone receiving an invitation with an R.S.V.P. on it is obliged to reply....",^[2] and some recent editions describe breaching this standard as "inexcusably rude"

thanks goes to the support from SIKS www.siks-ffm.de and KP gallery www.kaiser-p.de
and the great http://blankslate-magazine.com/ team!!! 
video by avi dehlinger for dontneed.org

das passagen- werk/the arcades project by walter benjamin - performative reading 2013 from dontneed on Vimeo

Walter Benjamin - Arcades Project - sounds

Rüdiger's selecting of sounds for the evening was inspired by the chapters titles that he chose.

A    Arcades, Magasins de Nouveautes,       

      Sales Clerks 

   

Hauschka (Foreign Landscapes) - Alexanderplatz

Berliner Ring (BARDO) - Good evening

Schwabinggrad Ballet - So sehr der Gedanke auch schmerzt, will es mir doch scheinen, als ob ich selbst in einer befreiten Gesellschaft zu einer Minderheit gehoeren wuerde.

B    Fashion                                              

Jackie Liebezeit und Burnt Friedmann (Secret Rythems 2)- Mikrokasper

Kraftwerk (Trans Europa Express) - Spiegelglas

D    Boredom, Eternal Return 

Bohren und der Club of Gore (Black Earth) - Midnight Black Earth

Grey series 4 - Stanislav Tolkachev (Depth of Light) - Depth of Light                 

M    The Flaneur

Christoph Schwellenbach - Was ist Musik (by Justus Koehnke)

Kamerakino (Paradiso) - Kolonialwaren

Christoph Schwellenbach - Maria (by Closer Musik)

Kamerakino (Paradiso) - Sie leben!

N    On the Theory of Knowledge,                 

       Theory of Progress

Mark Fürstenberg (Gesamtlaufzeit) - Gegenströmung

Loops Haunt (Zenith) - Heal 

März (Love Streams) - Everybody had a hard year

V    Conspiracies, Compagnonnage            

Sun Ra (The heliocentric worlds of Sun Ra; Vol2) - The Sun Myth

Ban Bou Nou (Orbiting) - Orbiting

Z    The Doll, The Automaton                  

The Modernist - Opportunity Knox

Esther Brinkmann - Maschine

a    Social Movement                                   

James Holden (The inheritors) - A circle Inside a circle Inside 

Kante - Best of both worlds

Schwabinggrad Ballet - ICE Berthold Brecht

m    Idleness                                             

GAS - Zauberberg

Slowblow - Hamburger Cemetery

surfaces and values

flo maak - Surface Interference Study (after Courbet), © 2013

to be able to really touch beyond the surface of our history and our stories is necessary, sometimes, to observe and recreate surfaces!

flo maak doest it in his latest work group! and they are refreshing for the eyes and for the brain. refreshing because there are not only brilliant executed works but because they contain stunning compositions loaded with the right amount of reflexion on the subject which they are carrying on it or about.

fake

TONITE from 9pm ECT live stream of the performance

 REAL MYSTIC TRUTHS / The trustworthy magnificent speech

by angelo luz 

from 8:30 you can tune in here in

or come to the  

EULENGASSE e.V.

Seckbacher Landstraße 16 
in frankfurt am main  

the exhibition fake is about the phenomena of the fake as an essential element in art practice. humans strive to obtain or reveal a certain truth in their realities, yet the transformation of the real has a strong effect on their lives in so many different ways. it comforts them, confronts them, gets them to smile or moves them to be emotional or rational when it comes to perceiving reality. the construction of the fake seems to play a major role in the development of any aesthetic language and in the blurring of borders between its disciplines.

the paintings of mario hergueta show the perfect combination of painting, drawing and architectonic object. with the project ‘fake states’, the legendary artist gordon matta-clark had started an investigation - in the new york of the 1970s - which continued a tradition of psychogeography and mapping of urban landscapes. the designer kai linke with his mirror chairs series created objects that blur the boundaries between design and art. angelo luz is a multidisciplinary artists. luz uses his body as tool to formulate questions about the relation between body, nature and our existence at this time. he operates in an almost shamanistic way. for fake he will develop a new performance piece.

mario hergueta

gordon matta-clark

kai linke

angelo luz

opening: 12.07.2013 - 8pm

mario hergueta

gordon matta-clark

kai linke

angelo luz

talk and performance by and with angelo luz: 27.07.2013 at 8pm

duration: 12.07 - 11.08.2013

opening times  thr. 5-9 pm, fri. 3-6pm & sun 3-7pm 

TONITE from 9pm ECT live stream of the performance
 REAL MYSTIC TRUTHS / The trustworthy magnificent speech
by angelo luz 
from 8:30 you can tune in here in

EULENGASSE e.V.

Seckbacher Landstraße 16  

60389 Frankfurt-Bornheim

www.eulengasse.de


gordon and social

"My understanding of  art in a social context is as an essentially generous human act, an individually positive attempt to encounter the real world through expressive interpretation. The value of art as it services and  sometimes flourishes in our systems is so closely related to occidental beliefs in individual rights of free expression that one can accuratelly speak of the state of art as a mesure of the state of freedom in our society."  

gordon matta-clark


the fake estates bought by gordon matta-clark  

> 96th street lawn, block 1107 lot 146 queens 

> glendale silver, block 3660 lot 140 queens 

> long island city garden, block 556 lot 103 queens 

> maspech triangle, block 2366 lot 241 queen 

> jamaica curb, block 10142 lot 15 queens 

> long island city alleyway, block 624 lot 141 queens 

> ridgewood alley, block 3398 lot 116 queens 

> borden avenue, block 209 lot 60 queens 

> woodside driveway, block 2286 lot 111 queens 

> maspech union, block 2406 lot 148 queens 

> 49th street driveway block 138 lot 107 queens 

> rego pak, block 3165 lot 155 queens 

> coonley street, block 1224 lot 12 state island

mario hergueta, saul judd and kai linke

the urgency of life and death - gilles deleuze

a passage goes blank

'The Sacred Being' After the Sacred Being offered it's beak, wings and legs to the Man, and after all of them were rejected by the Man, the Sacred Being started to look into darkness of endless nights until the land it saw became an eternity. "i have nothing to say - only to show"* *from walter benjamin's image notes and dialectical scheme for arcades.

'a passage goes blank' artists invited young joo lee & christoph esser!!! facilitated by saul judd this is the first installment of a series presenting works of visual artists at the [blank slate magazine space] specially made for that location. it will attempt to deal with the kaiserpassage situation and question of 'how relevant is the reaching of a blank state of mind', during the artistic process, in any given time in a creative practice.

11.10. 2012 7-10 pm - kaiserstrasse 62-64 frankfurt am main - store 44 

beauty and the beast - la belle et la bête in art comes alive at dOgUMENTA 13

can you imagine what goes on in a 1000 years old sculpture's mind heart or soul if any there? i think pierre huyghe does! 'humane' is also present around there; performing in a brillant way!!!

on performance and art coexistence

the series of performances by adrian william for hers and michael pfrommer show in the portikus were quite intense. she presented some of her new writing material and build by the end of the series an operatic situation. the experience is almost like to be in a film without the celluloid component. in the tradition of the great john cage adrian does in this group of new works a mix of life _art_goes_real_fiction with a great musical composition and performances some irony and poesie. 


michael for his part delivered a stunning body of paintings that encapsule his long practice. even if the works of adrian and michael are presented in separated rooms they do show the intensity that can be generated if you are a couple, lovers and partner in life and art and in art and in life. they met at the städel art academy some years ago and since then decided to take a journey together. the results are amazing.

clear mind! great art!!!

somehow agnes martin shown us how a clear mind can generate great art! here a nice interview with her from 1997!

[tracking the in-n-visible]

[tracking the in-n-visible] is about the forces which propel changes without we actually be aware of it and which we are not able to control.

this forces are just pure energy!

they are harbored somewhere in our minds or entire body!

they are pure abstract forms!

they irritate us or they grace us with the tensions that they can create!

all these thoughts mentioned above can be reflected or not in [tracking the in-n-visible] a shown curated by saul judd at fondation gutzwiller where ayaka okutsu will show "lip off the future" a performance and installation and ruairiadh o'connell will do a room installation.

opening 1.10.2010 6pm

exhibition 01.10 - 30.10.2010

performance on the 1.10 from 6 pm

performance on the 2.10 from 5 pm

5# act “the irony”

SUPERFLEX

“financial crises” session I - IV, 2009

_between_"the other" and "the self"_a_video_stream

5# act “the irony”

on the importancy of humor and the ironical expression in video art.

one of the great advantages of the working with moving images as media, in art, is the possibilities of convert situations into theatrical sketches. as i always quote in my e-mail messages "Video art is a sub-genre of homemade video" and i stand behind that affimation by vito acconci because in the home video lies the most funny events of contemporary lives. but life is one thing and art is the pleasurable-painful work which can shed some light upon it.

observing how some artists compose their footage material in a way that is not only entertaining but very intelligent comments and observations of human behave, sometimes just as a very simple anecdote and sometimes even as sarcastic comment, we can realize the important contribution video brought to the multidisciplinary in art practice in the last few decades.

in my opinion rodney graham is one of the most important figure in this field. artists like olaf breuning is not only hilarious with his sharp, tong in cheek, social comments he is very honest in the way he work his subjects as well. paul wiersbinski create works that can be viewed as comical to critical and in some cases sarcastic. superflex activities spand from collective performances to visual and practical activism.

SUPEFLEX

with works like “burning car” 2008 SUPEFLEX show how capable they are to interact with constructed event that actually could be considerated banal but also can activate memories of riots or just pure destruction or consumption. in the work “financial crises I - IV” they deal with the financial crisis and meltdown from a therapeutic side. in both works we can see clear that the character of the work is a quasi an anti-irony tha becomes humorous because it carriers an absurd content and message on it! the work is free from any pathos but becomes political like the "free beer" a project about give the power to the people ot breu it's own beer. because it is very intelligently orchestraded, it gives the work the opportunity to become a manifesto or just stay as a simple easthetical composition.

olaf breuning practice a very honest humor where he makes fun of everything and everybody. social-politically and personal satire are present in his entire body of work. from works like "Home 2", 2007 to "The Apple", 2006 we can see a very given type of relation being acted in these films but at the same time a very cynical one. in these works cinéma vérité and home video meet.

olaf breuning

Home 2 2007 30:12 min, starring Brian Kerstetter

paul wiersbinski

working with videos and live performances and embedding video in sculpture make the work of paul wierbinsky a mutimedia experience. in many works he tends to question the art practice itself and its apparatus or machinery engaging in a criticisms to a point of making the artistic practice and artproduction and busisness a central figure in his video works. and to do it he applys a good amount of sarcasm to convey his message.

the work "Ivo Burokvic", 2009 is one of them. it is a good mix between theater and video work all in one. "king nothing", 2008 is a hysterical tale of art exhibition visitors which are taking to a whole insane situation to reveal the possible sado-masochistic relations encountered in art.

paul wiersbinski

Ivo Burokvic, 2009, 11 min.

rodney graham

the body of film work of rodney graham is mostly done for installations in a loop mode as he uses the film to expose a permanent past or present and even as future memory. a dream-like state is activated in his imagery. graham, in his work in general, is able to establish a very special relation with the self performatic in different possibilities of a reality. vexation island, 1997 is a beautiful example of his perfomative practice. we could say that he is a permanent voyager in between different realities as well. "how i became a ramblin' man", 1999 is a prime example of it.

rodney graham the musician plays a very important role in his video production. his band the "Rodney Graham Band" with albums like "Never Tell A Pal A Hard Luck Story ( You'll Get A Hard Luck Story In Return) tell us everything.

even if rodney graham produces a very complex body of work he is able to give access to his great ideas like a good magician gives his audience moments of delight.

rodney graham

"how i became a ramblin' man", 1999, 9 min.

35 mm film transfered to DVD